Republican leader to cancer victim: Beg for charity

[Swede]

This is so disgusting.


House Minority Whip Eric Cantor (R-Va.) wins the award for why Republican favorable numbers on healthcare are barely above 20 percent. Mr. Cantor was recently asked what a woman with stomach cancer should do if she did not have the insurance to pay huge medical costs.

Here is the Cantor plan for middle-income Americans who may have lost their health insurance after being laid off by a company whose CEO might be making a million dollars a year. First, she should sell all of her lifetime possessions to desperately pay humongous medical costs, with the side benefit that this would make her poor, and therefore qualify for health programs for the poor that many Republicans don’t support. If this fails, Mr. Cantor advises the woman to do this: beg.


http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/lawmaker-news/60141-republican-leader-to-cancer-victim-beg-for-charity

[hobbit709]

1. What an oxygen stealing waste of skin.

[enlightenment]

2. Cantor is a slime - but he didn't advise the woman to beg.

He said that she should turn to charity programs, which is a bit different.

St. Jude's Hospital is a 'charity' hospital . . . the families that take their children there are not begging.

I'm not excusing Cantor in any way; he's a clueless POS - but it is so unhelpful to write an article like the one you linked because it simply exacerbates with inflammatory rhetoric.

Had the author quoted or paraphrased what Cantor actually said, he still could have made his point.

The link here has the actual dialogue, transcribed and in a video link:

http://thinkprogress.org/2009/09/22/cantor-uninsured-option/

[daleo]

4. Nobody is entitled to charity

By definition. Therefore, there is an element of begging involved (though it might be genteel in some cases).

[enlightenment]

6. That's stretching a definition until it screams -

or should I say, begs - for mercy. ;)

Charity, by definition, is a gift. Entitlement has nothing to do with it (or shouldn't).

[sentelle]

3. and uh,

Where would they go begging?

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/10/14/60minutes/main2089778.shtml

"Part of the problem, he says, was indifference from "the base," the religious right. He took 60 Minutes to a convention of evangelical groups – his old stomping ground - and walked around the display booths, looking for any reference to the poor.

"You’ve got homosexuality in your kid’s school, and you’ve got human cloning, and partial birth abortion and divorce and stem cell," Kuo remarked. "Not a mention of the poor."

"This message that has been sent out to Christians for a long time now: that Jesus came primarily for a political agenda, and recently primarily a right-wing political agenda - as if this culture war is a war for God. And it’s not a war for God, it’s a war for politics. And that’s a huge difference," says Kuo. "
David Kuo was the #2 guy under W in the Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives

[zbdent]

5. perhaps he meant "beg from the liberals"

you know, those who actually would show compassion ...

[greenbriar]

7. figures

they got theirs so screw anyone else